Verborrea

Tragicomedy written and directed by Pablo Remón, starring Javier Cámara, Israel Elejalde, Marta Nieto and Emilio Tomé. It traces the rise and fall of a punk band from the late 1980s into the early 1990s.

Verborrea is a tragicomedy written and directed by Pablo Remón, with a cast comprising Javier Cámara, Israel Elejalde, Marta Nieto and Emilio Tomé. The show is organised in two halves, like the two sides of a cassette, and reconstructs the rise and fall of a punk band from the final years of the 1980s.

The first part follows two brothers raised in the last years of the dictatorship, in a settlement built in the Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen) for Patrimonio staff. Kike, the group's manager, recounts the rebelliousness of Segis, who confronts his father and the order that sustains him. In the second part, the band members recall Segismundo Tóxico, admired and rejected in equal measure, through versions that sometimes coincide and sometimes contradict one another.

The production moves forward through monologues and crossed voices, in an episodic narrative reminiscent of the picaresque novel. It is a story about the myths we raise and tear down, told with grit and also with poetry.